BBC North takes off

What does "sport is coming home" mean here?



Is there a balancing article anywhere mourning the loss of creative jobs in London and explaining the impact on well established and efficient teams that have been disrupted?

....and also I bet that breakfast returns to London within two years.

Jobs lost in the South East, jobs created in the North West. Is the BBC a national broadcaster or a South East regional broadcaster? And exactly why will Breakfast fail for not being in the capital?



"Sport coming home"....bit chest thumping of course, but the north west historically is a great sporting area.

3. At 15:48pm 18th May 2011, Jonny wrote:

And exactly why will Breakfast fail for not being in the capital?



For the same reasons that "This Morning"(?) abandoned Liverpool.

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Don't forget the full history timeline of the MediaCityUK BBC North build with 16,000 photos taken from May 2007 at: https://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mediacityuk%20bbc%20north%20university%20salford%20quays%20manchester%20peel%20nwda%20jobs/bbcmediacityukweb2011q1/index.html



Pictures are updated fortnighly or sooner. More photos when I have them... Regards Mark (local IT Manager) [Personal details removed by Moderator]

I would argue that This Morning was 20 years ago. These are different times, and a very different programme.



Also this is moving up with the presenters prepared to be a flagship Northern show. This Morning moved down due, partly, to it's presenters wanting the show in London.

This Morning was almost purely entertainment. Breakfast is a bit more serious and intelligent.



I am concerned that there will be trouble getting foreign "red carpet" visitors to London to allot time to appear on air in Salford. I am concerned that while parliament is sitting you will not get top politicians to appear on air in Salford. I envisage more studio links than planned.



There will then be a creep back towards London, starting with a dedicated mini studio (sofa, set / virtual set) so as to keep on brand for remote interviews. This will progress to having an interviewer in the London mini studio to make those interviews "more personal" and then a year later it will all pitch up back in London.

...anyway despite what I have posted earlier I really do wish everyone involved the best of luck in what for them is exciting times.

University of Bolton MediaCityUK BBC North Photo Timeline article pages 14-15: https://www.bolton.ac.uk/News/TheBolt/TheBoltSpring2011.pdf

Time will tell Kit. As for politicians, they won't travel along the westway to leave the studio in Central London so a lot of those are already down the line. I'd bet they wouldn't even travel to the new building on Portland Street.



You never know, it could shake things up in a good way and end some of the stuffiness associated with the south eastern bias.

Peter and Steve: please would you correct the Postal Addresses for alll four buildings on BBC Online's About The BBC: you're still using the Postcode for PO Box 27 instead of NBH's and still putting Manchester instead of Salford for the three builidings in Media City UK?



Cheers

I think we should all wish good luck to the London staff that are working their last day today.

I also hope they enjoy their party (Redun-Dance) tomorrow. (Not funded by BBC)

Re Message 13: I assume the BBC Parliament studios in Millbank will stay put.

Pictures taken yesterday of the MediaCityUK BBC North development including the new BBC logo on top of the main BBC building, installed at the weekend:



https://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mediacityuk%20bbc%20north%20university%20salford%20quays%20manchester%20peel%20nwda%20jobs/bbcmediacityukweb2011q1j/mediacityukmcukpeelsmediacityuksalfordquaysbbcnorthjune20th2011mediacityukwebcamtimelinenwda3.html



More pictures when I have them.



Cheers Mark.

The latest pictures from late June of the MediaCityUK BBC North site. The BBC logos are all in place on both front and back of the main BBC buildings. Also, note the shipping containers in the Piazza.



Specially created for children aged 6 months to 7 years, Music Boxes is a mini city of shipping containers at MediaCityUK, the new home of BBC Children’s. Some containers will be miniature performance spaces, some will be specially adapted recording and animation studios, while others will be kitted out as interactive installations allowing the very young to explore a fantasy world of sound and music.



https://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mediacityuk%20bbc%20north%20university%20salford%20quays%20manchester%20peel%20nwda%20jobs/bbcmediacityukweb2011q1j/index3.html



https://mif.co.uk/event/music-boxes/



More pictures for July when I have them. Cheers Mark.

Latest July pictures from MediaCityUK BBC North. Customers of the new Booths Cafe in the main BBC North studios best watch out:



https://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mediacityuk%20bbc%20north%20university%20salford%20quays%20manchester%20peel%20nwda%20jobs/bbcmediacityukweb2011q2/mediacityukmcukpeelsmediacityuksalfordquaysbbcnorthjuly12th2011mediacityukwebcamtimelinenwda32.html



Thanks to those who have joined our MediaCityUK BBC North UoS LinkedIn group which now stands at 6,235+ members.



More pictures when I have them. Cheers Mark.

The latest MediaCityUK BBC North ITV UoS photo timeline pictures for August 2011 including shots of the ITV studios opposite BBC North (work just started): https://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mediacityuk%20bbc%20north%20university%20salford%20quays%20manchester%20peel%20nwda%20jobs/bbcmediacityukweb2011q2a/index.html



More photos when I have them and updates at the MediaCityUK forum at https://www.mediacityukforum.co.uk. Cheers Mark.

To offset the Tuesday morning cloud, here are five High Definition 360 movie views of MediaCityUK BBC North and UoS taken on a sunny, blue sky day late last week:



1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEc4YhCors



2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xihZi0_7H1I



3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3DulpAancA



4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKv3fPJk2Q



5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49fe4QRAx40

Well done BBC you have wasted 900 million pounds of license fee payers money addressing an issue that no-one cared about , London is your home for historical and financial reasons and very few people that i have talked to expected it to be any other way , they have however been very concerned about the limited scope of future spending at the BBC with the extravagant move to manchester being no3 , the appaling "keeping up with ITV" 20 Million waste of money "The Voice" being no2 and the absolutely unbelievable censorship and sellout of F1 fans being no1 , if i hadnt seen the way f1 fans have been treated with my own eyes id have never believed it not from an organisation that i have held as sacrosanct since i was a child , now .... i believe it to be a small minded focus group misled group of self interested upper middle class delusionists with no idea of what its liscence payers want , SHAME ON YOU BBC.

The BBC could be a little more objective about its commitment to the English Regions. So far in 2011 about one quarter of the programme making jobs in Birmingham and Bristol have been cut. There is no point in taking from one region and giving to another. Birmingham has lost most of its production facilities and hence only one programme a week on peak time BBC1 comes from there. All this talk and crowing about MediaCity underscores the fact that many senior BBC executives see the English landscape in two quite simple dimensions: London and somewhere outside it called The Regions. There are in fact 9 English regions and most of them are severely under represented, despite paying the same licence fee as everyone else. The regional policy being pursued by the BBC is deeply flawed, unfair and inequitable. The Midlands and the South West in particular are not getting their fair share, or for that matter Yorkshire, the North East, East of England or the south coast. One day, the BBC's concentration in just one region will be seen - in hindsight - to have been divisive and to have failed in its objective of getting closer to the licence payers. If my assessment is true, that could actually be quite dangerous for public service funding. Once again there are 9 English regions and several major cities... just in case any senior Execs are reading this, I thought you might need a reminder.

Latest September photos of the MediaCityUK BBC North UoS development in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, on the Photo Timeline Journal which has now been extended until 2013 to take account of the ITV development: https://www.mediacityuksalfordquays.net/mcuk.htm .



Thanks to those who have joined the corresponding LinkedIn group which now stands at 7,000 members.

To Peter Salmon and to any other person that the contents may concern:



Dear Peter,



I write to you today in the hope that your eyes will gaze upon the contents of my words. I understand that the chances of this are miniscule and with this I have opened up the contents within for any employee of the BBC that may be able to help with the written subject matter. Also I understand that the length of this letter may be daunting but I implore you to read on.



Firstly I hope you will give me a few sentences to introduce myself as I believe this will better allow me to become an entity rather than a figure hidden behind words.



My name is David James Beattie and recently I became one of the many tens of thousands of people to apply for a role at BBC North.



In January of this year I sent my CV to the BBC. Not expecting to hear anything back, I was amazed when a few days later I was invited to take the online assessment and to my joy I received word that my assessment had been successful and that I would be contacted in due course with relevant opportunities that met my criteria.



I further studied the BBC North website and found that my childhood preconceptions of employees at the BBC and within the media industry were wrong. The people working there didn’t seem to be like anything I had imagined, in all honesty they seemed to be like me. Hard work was the ethic, fun was the promise. Regardless of backgrounds, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and/or experience everyone had a home at the BBC and at BBC North people like me could find a new home in a new career. It seemed too good to be true.



Could people from a small northern mill town such as Burnley, a person like me, really progress in such a manner that they could work at the BBC? Well I didn’t have to look any further than Peter Salmon for inspiration. I decided that if I really wanted this I would have to act now and show my determination. So with this in mind I decided that I would move from Burnley to Salford Quays. I never expected that moving to the area would get me a job but I thought it may increase my chances of being invited to any interviews for any applicable job roles that may arise in the future whilst demonstrating my hunger and determination. I first visited the Quays in January but moved into the area in April and the continuous transformation has not only been a joy to behold but was to be inspiration and reminder that my decision was the right one. I took the offer of employment at the Lowry the

To Peter Salmon and to any other person that the contents may concern:



Dear Peter,



I write to you today in the hope that your eyes will gaze upon the contents of my words. I understand that the chances of this are miniscule and with this I have opened up the contents within for any employee of the BBC that may be able to help with the written subject matter. Also I understand that the length of this letter may be daunting but I implore you to read on.



Firstly I hope you will give me a few sentences to introduce myself as I believe this will better allow me to become an entity rather than a figure hidden behind words.



My name is David James Beattie and recently I became one of the many tens of thousands of people to apply for a role at BBC North.



In January of this year I sent my CV to the BBC. Not expecting to hear anything back, I was amazed when a few days later I was invited to take the online assessment and to my joy I received word that my assessment had been successful and that I would be contacted in due course with relevant opportunities that met my criteria.



I further studied the BBC North website and found that my childhood preconceptions of employees at the BBC and within the media industry were wrong. The people working there didn’t seem to be like anything I had imagined, in all honesty they seemed to be like me. Hard work was the ethic, fun was the promise. Regardless of backgrounds, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and/or experience everyone had a home at the BBC and at BBC North people like me could find a new home in a new career. It seemed too good to be true.



Could people from a small northern mill town such as Burnley, a person like me, really progress in such a manner that they could work at the BBC? Well I didn’t have to look any further than Peter Salmon for inspiration. I decided that if I really wanted this I would have to act now and show my determination. So with this in mind I decided that I would move from Burnley to Salford Quays. I never expected that moving to the area would get me a job but I thought it may increase my chances of being invited to any interviews for any applicable job roles that may arise in the future whilst demonstrating my hunger and determination. I first visited the Quays in January but moved into the area in April and the continuous transformation has not only been a joy to behold but was to be inspiration and reminder that my decision was the right one. I took the offer of employment at the Lowry%2

Two more 360 HD movie views (to join the 5 published above) of MediaCityUK BBC North taken today at about 12:45pm for the https://www.ManchesterMediaForum.co.uk group... These were taken from the Imperial War Museum North side of Salford Quays looking back towards the BBC North development at MediaCityUK on a blue sky day here in the Quays...



MediaCityUK BBC North from near to IWMN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSREQjiNng



MediaCityUK BBC North from the New Bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2un7Tt1EY



More photos and movies when I have them.



Regards



Mark.

3 more HD movies of MediaCityUK BBC North and UoS taken yesterday against the blue, sunny skies of Salford Quays...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsSdsQT6qpQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gUgOwqp_zk



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sws0sl3K4iM

It looks like Mark continues to post comments in order to try justifying moving North. Probably you do not believe it was wise yourself, that you are trying this hard.

Hi Piet. I have lived in the north from birth??



Anyway. Latest September photos of the MediaCityUK BBC North UoS development in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, on the Photo Timeline Journal which has now been extended until 2013 to take account of the ITV development directly opposite the BBC North offices: https://www.mediacityuksalfordquays.net/mcuk.htm .



Thanks to those who have joined the corresponding https://www.ManchesterMediaForum.co.uk group which now stands at 7,100+ members. Photos from October posted shortly.



Regards

Mark.

My October MediaCityUK photos with the latest look at the ITV Corrie development and the Aeolus by Luke Jerram - an Acoustic Wind Pavilion : https://www.mediacityuksalfordquays.net/mcuk.htm